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[Podocarpiis asplenii/olius, Lab.) I detected the Anopterus of 

 Labillai-diere in flower; the Ce7iarrhenes of that author in 

 fruit; the beautiful Carpodonfos ; the Sassafras-scented Athe- 

 rosperma; the aromatic Tasmannia in fruit; the native 

 Birch;* a species of Weinmannia ;\ some of the Epacridea, 

 El(Xocarpus pedunculatus ; Gaultheria hispida in fruit, with 

 several others of like sterling importance. After a minute 

 examination of all the trees of Huon Pine that had been re- 

 cently fallen, I was fortunate in the detection of the young 

 fruit of that most nseful tree." 



Early in the month of May, the Mermaid was declared ready 

 for sea, and Mr Cunningham prepared to embark on board 

 her for a second voyage to the north and north west coasts. 

 On the 8th, Captain King sailed from Port Jackson. Port 

 Macquarie on the east coast was the first place they put in 

 at ; and of the vegetation of this port Mr Cunningham says— 

 " We are not far enough to the northward yet, to observe 

 any decided change in the character of the botany liere, as 

 difiPering from that of Port Jackson. Three-fourths of the 

 plants I had noticed in November last, at the Five Islands, 

 (Illawarra,) to the southward of Port Jackson, and originally 

 discovered by Mr Brown, {probably at Hunter's River,) ex- 

 ist in the most thick woods, investing in patches the immedi- 

 ate shores of this Port. I now view my old friends in another 

 state, and among them some nondescripts, inhabiting the 

 dense forests on the banks of the Hastings, of whom a new 

 Palm^ (seldom above twelve feet in height,) and a species of 

 Pothos, adhering to trees, not enumerated among Mr Brown's 

 genera ofAroidea, are perhaps most remarkable. In the hol- 

 lows are dark thick woods, bound together with twining and 

 climbing plants of extraordinary size, where several kinds o\ 

 Laurinece and MeliacecB, of small diameter, as timbers, are 

 to be met with, which, nevertheless, I doubt not will be found 

 useful for building, and ornamental for household furniture. 



* Fagus Cunninghamii, Hook. Journ. of Bot. Vol. \\.p- 150. t. vii. 

 t Weimnunniu biijhaididom, MSS. Hook. Icon. Plant- I. ccci. 



